Jim Kelly Consults With Doctors In NYC

NEW YORK-Jim Kelly flew to New York on Monday to consult with doctors there about his new battle with cancer.

On Friday, doctors at ECMC announced that Kelly's cancer, which originally was in his jaw, had recurred and spread.

Jim and Jill Kelly were in New York meeting with doctors to discuss possible treatment options.

Monday afternoon Jill shared a picture on Instagram and Twitter of her wearing her husband's cross. She wrote that Jim "took off his necklace and handed it to me before heading in for yet another MRI. Now it's around my neck. A reminder that because of the cross, because of what JESUS did, we have hope. Hope when you hear them say "the cancer is back"...because God is bigger than the cancer."

Kelly went into ECMC last week and it was then when doctors discovered that the cancer his cancer had come back and spread.

Friends and former teammates visited with him at the hospital late last week.

One of them was Ruben Brown,who spoke about Kelly on Channel 2's Sports Extra.

Ruben Brown: "He's in good spirits, he has an optimistic look on this thing, he believes he's going to fight through it and make the best of it. It's an unfortunate setback right now. It tugs at your heartstrings I would say to everyone who's out there watching, Jim is his old usual self, cracking jokes and taking this thing in stride."

Steve Tasker: "He was in good spirits and we were laughing and joking as we always do although he mapped out in pretty good detail what he's looking at over the next few months. He knows he's in for a fight but he's ready for it and I'm kind of proud of him he seemed great."